Archive for October, 2009

In Arts, we have now started making our sea creature sculpture. I chose to do a Ragged-To0thed shark and I tried to make it life size, about 2 meters. Fortunately Mr Pat advised not to make it so big because I am now making a 1 meter long shark and having big troubles making it. I chose to do a shark for my sculpture because I thought that doing a shark was cool and also giving myself a challenge. I’ve seen the other sculptures at school and they’re big, but the big ones were made in a group so I thought that I could do something as big and also by myself.

The Ragged-Toothed shark can grow up to 4.25 meters long and they travel in schools. The sharks are a sluggish sort of sharks and like to rest in the day and they can sometimes be found at the bottom of the sea bed.

Plan:Armature:

Head:

Coke Bottle wrapped in Newspaper

Body:

2 milk bottles (the bid bottles) connected together with tape and newspaper

Put another milk bottle at the end and make it slightly curved.

Tail:

1 coke bottle wrapped in newspaper to make the bottler half the size longer

Another coke bottle wrapped in newspaper but keep it the same size as original coke bottle size

Stick then to the end of the shark with masking tape

Fins:

Cardboard wrapped in newspaper and stuck to the sides and top of the shark

Wrap more newspaper until it looks good.

Paper-Mache :

Wrap the shark armature with newspaper balls

Wrap another layer of newspaper around the balls to make the shark look smooth

Do the same with the head

Add the fins to the right place

Start paper-mache-ing!

Pictures:

My 1st Armature but I decided to make it smaller like the picture at the bottom because it looked too big and also I wouldn’t really finish it on time.

Me with my shark. I put scrunches of newspaper on the shark armature so that it looks smooth and round because it looked rectangular. Then I wrapped it with newspaper again.